US EditionLondon Film Festival Clocks Record Attendance & ‘Hamnet’ Wins Audience Award
The festival attracted 235,853 attendees with 94% screening occupancy and 47% first-time ticket buyers, awarding Black Is Beautiful and Hamnet audience prizes.
- This year the BFI London Film Festival reached 235,853 people across its 12-day programme, and audiences voted to award Chloé Zhao's Hamnet the best feature audience prize.
- Occupancy across in-person screenings increased to 94%, up from 92% last year, with 47% of tickets booked by first-time LFF attendees who could vote on awards.
- Black Is Beautiful world premiered on Oct. 9, profiling photographer and activist Kwame Brathwaite, while Hamnet screened as the Mayor of London Gala on Oct. 11 with Zhao, Paul Mescal, Jessie Buckley, and Steven Spielberg attending.
- The festival's industry forum welcomed more than 3,400 delegates, over 1,000 international and U.K. filmmakers, and staged 44 red carpets with 252 titles from 79 countries.
- Kristy Matheson thanked artists for sharing their unique views this year, Justine Simons said the numbers show why London is 'one of the world's best celebrations of cinema', and organisers set next year's festival for Oct. 7-18, 2026.
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How to see Oscar front-runner 'Hamnet' before it hits theaters
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London Film Festival Clocks Record Attendance & ‘Hamnet’ Wins Audience Award
Chloé Zhao’s latest feature, Hamnet, has won the London Film Festival Audience Award. The Maggie O’Farrell adaptation was announced as the Audience Award winner this week by the BFI. The film screened as the Mayor of London Gala during the LFF, with Zhao in attendance alongside her leads Jesse Buckley and Paul Mescal and producers, including Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes. Elsewhere, Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story, the lat…
See Paul Mescal, Jessie Buckley in the trailer for ‘Hamnet’
Focus Features released the full-length official trailer for its historical drama Hamnet, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last month. Writer-director Chloé Zhao adapted Maggie O’Farrell’s novel of the same name for the screen version, which is based on real-life playwright William Shakespeare and the creation of his play Hamlet. Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal star as Agnes and William Shakespeare in two-time Academy Awa…
‘Hamnet’ Wins Audience Award for Best Feature at London Film Festival as BFI Reports Highest Attendance Ever
“Hamnet” won the audience award for best feature film at London Film Festival amid its highest attendance ever, the BFI announced on Thursday. Chloé Zhao’s moving drama was the Mayor of London’s Gala on Oct. 11 and was introduced by the director, stars Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley, and producer Steven Spielberg. The audience award […]
The 69th BFI London Film Festival Recap
The 69th BFI London Film Festival announces record-breaking audiences and reveals the LFF Audience Awards. The post The 69th BFI London Film Festival Reveals The Audience Numbers And Awards appeared first on Future of the Force - Pop Culture From Every Galaxy...
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